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An example of a player board in Wombat Rescue. When your lead wombat eats food during the game, you put it on the left space of the player board. Each turn you'll digest food and eventually you'll produce another poop cube and expand your smell area!

This is an example of one of the tiles in the game. This tile has a spot where your wombat may be able to find food and another spot where your baby wombat can be found!

Wombat Rescue (2015)

Players

1–4

Best: 3

Playing time

60–60 min

Age

10+

6.44

Average rating

430

Ratings

2.10/5

Weight

#7774

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:Matt Wolfe

Artist:Mateusz Szulik

Publisher:Eagle-Gryphon Games

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck4.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity4.2

Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

HumorAnimalsPick-up and DeliverModular BoardNetwork and Route BuildingGrid Movement

Overview

Did you know that wombats poop cubes? It’s true! Scientists theorize that, due to extremely poor vision but an excellent sense of smell, wombats use their poop cubes as “smell markers” to help them navigate their environment. Because their poop is cube-shaped it is less likely to roll away or be moved.

You play as the mama wombat of your tribe. The dastardly dingo has stormed your burrow and chased away 4 of your baby wombats! You will need to eat and digest food in order to produce poop cubes, with which you will build smell areas so you can navigate your environment, find your baby wombats, and bring them home. The player who best plans their smell areas and moves most efficiently will prove victorious!

The object of Wombat Rescue is to be the first player to find all 4 of your baby wombats and bring them home.